He's getting tired, and so am I.They now deny at the Foreign Office that anything has been decided about Carden, and this meddling by us (as they look at it) will surely cause a delay and may even cause a change of purpose.
That's the practical result of their leaking at Washington.

On a previous occasion they leaked the same way.

When I telegraphed a remonstrance, they telegraphed back to me that the leak had been _here_! That was the end of it--except that I had to explain to Sir Edward the best I could.

And about a lesser matter, I did the same thing a third time, in a conversation.

Three times this sort of thing has happened .-- On the other hand, the King's Master of Ceremonies called on me on the President's Birthday and requested for His Majesty that I send His Majesty's congratulations.